Software Engineering Culture Round-Up

A Collection of Top Software Engineering Culture News, Articles, Presentations March 2023 [InfoQ] Software Engineering Culture Round-Up Sponsored by [Linode] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Presentations](#top-presentations-and-interviews) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Software Engineering Culture on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [Being Opiniated About the Engineering Culture you want to Build]( (podcasts, Feb 17, 2023) [How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings]( (articles, Feb 16, 2023) [Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps]( (news, Feb 16, 2023) [Secure Delivery: Better Workflows for Secure Systems and Pain-Free Delivery]( (articles, Feb 10, 2023) [How to Analyze Behavior and Influence Behavior Change with the ABC Model]( (news, Feb 09, 2023) [[eBook] Understanding Kubernetes (Updated Edition)]( This eBook covers everything from the fundamental concepts of Kubernetes to the components of a Kubernetes cluster and network model implementation. New in the 2022 edition are sections on understanding the Standard Kubernetes Dashboard, the high-availability control plane, and autoscaling. [Download now.]( Sponsored content [Understanding Kubernetes]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development]( (articles, Jan 19, 2023) [InfoQ Software Trends Report: Major Trends in 2022 and What to Watch for in 2023]( (articles, Jan 13, 2023) [Test Automation Requires a Strategy and Clean Code]( (news, Feb 02, 2023) [Why Team-Level Metrics Matter in Software Engineering]( (articles, Jan 17, 2023) [] Top News [How to Assess Software Quality]( The quality practices assessment model (QPAM) can be used to classify a team’s exhibited behavior into four dimensions: Beginning, Unifying, Practicing, and Innovating. It explores social and technical quality aspects like feedback loops, culture, code quality and technical debt, and deployment pipeline. [Sustainability for Software Companies: Reducing Impact by Deciding What Not to Do]( Small and medium-sized companies can contribute to sustainability with emissions reduction, mental health offerings and inclusion. To support sustainability, software engineers can think about “what not to do” to reduce complexity and make solutions smaller, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint. [Creating Great Psychologically Safe Teams with Sandy Mamoli]( Sandy Mamoli, author and coach at Nomad8, recently appeared on the No Nonsense Agile Podcast to discuss her experience in creating safe, high-performing and self-selected teams. Keith Ferrazzi, author of Competing in the New World of Work, also recently wrote about his experience with using empowering social contracts to cultivate great teams. Both emphasized safety and candour. [[eBook] Learn Infrastructure as Code: Step-by-Step]( Learn how to use some of the most in-demand IaC tools that exist: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet (and Puppet Bolt), ChefSalt (aka SaltStack). Each tool is covered as mostly a stand-alone-project that focuses on deploying a simple Docker-based Python web application from Github. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Learn Infrastructure as Code]( [Creating Environments High in Psychological Safety with a Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach]( Leadership is critical for making psychological safety happen, but they need to lead by example and show that it’s safe for people to take interpersonal risks. Complementing leadership with team workshops in communication skills can enable people to speak up and feel safe to fail. [Improving Retrospective Effectiveness with End-of-Year and Focus Retrospectives]( Doing end-of-year retrospectives can help to improve the effectiveness of agile retrospectives, by focusing on the actions done and the formats used. To increase the impact of retrospectives we can alternate between “global galactic” and focus retrospectives. [] Top Articles [How to Use Your Existing Software Development Process Data to Find More Bugs in Less Time]( This article presents better solutions that employ data from the system under test and the tests themselves to optimize testing efforts. This allows teams to find more bugs in less time. [article]( [Driving Employee Retention and Performance through Recruiting]( With employee turnover expected to reach all-time highs, improving retention must start with a recruiting approach that connects meaning, and a mission, to each position and for every candidate. [article]( [Increasing Team and Individual Motivation with the Motivational Diagnostic]( The motivation diagnostic tool helps people understand more about how motivated they feel, and the factors that are contributing towards that motivation or demotivation. [article]( [Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Do What Everyone Needs It To. What Next?]( Stack extensibility is an essential trait of well-designed IT ecosystems. Here's how Low-code BPA (Business Process Automation) empowers businesses with an easy-to-use and IT-sanctioned set of tools. [article]( [How to Measure the Energy Consumption of Bugs]( This article sheds light on how consideration of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions can be achieved in software development, zooming in on energetic shortcomings or bottlenecks of bugs. [article]( [[PDF] Declarative Cloud Infrastructure Management with Terraform]( Understand the underlying concepts of Terraform, declarative cloud infrastructure management, and key basics of the Hashicorp Configuration Language. Learn how to get tarted with HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), use Terraform to Provision Linode Environments, and more. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Declarative Cloud Infrastructure]( [] Top Presentations [Hiring and Retaining Great People in the New World of Working]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sarah Hawley of Growmotely about employing and retaining people in the remote and hybrid working world. [podcast]( [Delivering Great Software and Building Great Teams at CircleCI]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rob Zuber, CTO of Circle CI, about what it takes to build and deliver great software and build great teams. [podcast]( [Great Products Need a Culture of Quality and Passionate People]( In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Melissa Daley, Bob Crews and Adam Sandman, about the state of testing and how to instil a culture of quality into software teams. [podcast]( [Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking]( Nick Tune shares principles and practices from the fields of DDD and Team Topologies that leaders can apply to create high-performing teams and sustainable flow throughout their organization. [Nick Tune]( [People Matter Most in Organisational Change]( Shane Hastie spoke to Simon Powers about why organisational change is hard, putting people first, the need for emergence rather than recipes and his new book Change. [podcast]( [Connect with InfoQ on Twitter]( [Connect with InfoQ on Facebook]( [Connect with InfoQ on LinkedIn]( [Connect with InfoQ on Youtube]( You have received this message because you are subscribed to the “Special Reports Newsletter”. 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